Composer Reacts to Acid Bath - The Blue (REACTION & ANALYSIS)
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- Bryan reacts to and talks about his thoughts on Acid Bath- The Blue
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0:00 Intro
1:05 Reaction
7:20 Analysis - Initial Thoughts
9:39 Analysis - A Series of Rough Transistion
13:18 Analysis - A Variety of Vocal Styles
17:18 Analysis - Crunchy Production
26:33 Analysis - All of the Influences
29:33 Analysis - Figuring out Sludge
33:43 Analysis - Word Salad Lyrics? Or Profound?
38:05 Analysis - Tying the Themes Together
40:17 Outro
The way Acid Bath would change tempo, throw riffs around like confetti and still keep cohesion to the songs is incredible. Maybe Mastodons Blood Mountain gives off a similar manic energy but far less unnerving and vile.
Or interesting.I love Mastodon but Acid Bath is just Acid Bath
"Sludge is deep-fried hard rock/grunge" 😂. I'm not even mad, that sums it up surprisingly well.
Basically better grunge
My favorite description of the genre came from the documentary Slow Southern Steel where he said "it's like Slayer dipped in syrup"
@@morgangarret6207 and sprinkled with sawdust for the rough vocals
@@morgangarret6207slayer dipped in bong resin
Sludge Metal is supposed to be Doom Metal meets Hardcore Punk.
The confusion is understandable. On top of being one of the most influential sludge bands, Acid Bath is also arguably the most dynamic and experimental in terms of song structure and influences that they integrated into their music
Gotta watch this one quick before it gets taken down. Love the band hate the label. Loving Sludge week, I have always found that Doom, Sludge, Post Rock and Stoner were pretty closely related at least to my ear.
They haven't touched vin and sori's video yet so maybe rotten records is done being twats about reviews
Get a copy right strike? Damn!
Yeah, Rotten Records seems to love sticking the middle finger up to potential consumers.
Any long time Acid Bath fan knows this to be true!
Good thing they've been on Spotify for over a year now
Jonathan Davis of Korn once said in an interview I saw when I was younger that his favorite band was Acid Bath. And I was really into Korn as a teenager so I thought "well, if they like it then I might too." Never stopped listening, and it opened up the gates to bands like Eyehategod, Melvins, and eventually Black Tusk.
I would have never figured Jonathan David being into Acid Bath
I actually found Acid Bath from a girl I knew, Bayley. It was in the 5th grade, so this wouldve occured around 2006, i remember her parents had the original font copy of When the Kite String Pops. It was amazing hearing the enirety of the album for the very first time
Since we are sharing I was introduced to Acid Bath while shooting pool in a dive bar in Iowa waiting for D.R.I. to come on stage BUT once I heard Acid Bath start playing I dropped my pool cue & went in the next room to watch the best concert of my life.
AB never gets stale...ever
you should check out i dont care where i go when i die by gaza, esp the first song
That makes sense, there’s points in certain acid bath tracks that korn sounds like, some transitions with the guitar and drum fills
Best band in the world imo Dax’s vocals are legendary
Not an opinion, Acid Bath is the best band in the world.
@@ShaggyShagz13^^^^^^^^
It's a travesty that the 2 albums didn't receive better production.
That fact that this video has 110 comments really shows how much people still care about this band
Jezebel, bones of baby dolls, grave flower, are probably my all time favorite songs, honestly there isn't a single song I dislike. Just gritty, chaotic, for me their songs feel nostalgic in a sense.
Right! Graveflower and Venus Blue just BLOW my mind!
Both albums are just perfection
for me it's finger paintings, the chord progressions just hit right
Agreed! Personally, I love Locust Spawning, Dope Fiend and God Machine as well. Not one bad song from Acid Bath!!
there's just one for me: 'cassie eats cockroaches' all f* day.
also 'what color is death' and 'dr suess is dead' are grat.
funny, how people likes the same in little differences 🤘
My favorite part of Acid Bath ARE the tempo changes. Sometimes feels like 3 or 4 different songs in one, yet somehow totally cohesive.
This! It's honestly one of my favorite parts of the band.
This album was SO epic in its day ! A flawless piece ...You check out "Soilent Green" another good sludge band.."It was just an accident " cool song
It still is
@@PsychedelicMind67 shout out to Ben!
I always interpreted "the slit wrists of the sky bleeding into the blue" as a creative way to describe clouds. The bright red streaky ones you might see a bit before sunset. Nice reaction and analysis 👍
I've always taken the line "I have fallen in love with the sky" as a part of a psychedelic trip cause whenever you are tripping it's the sky that has the strongest hallucinations and visuals. That's all I got 😂🤯 Other than that the general theme of Acid Bath/Dax Riggs lyrics seem to be a really dark and disturbing psychedelic trip. A madman tripping on LSD/Mushrooms, etc haha. I could be wrong of course but that's my interpretation. The song "Pagan Love Song" is literally about the band tripping on a flower called "Angels Trumpets" while on tour in Orlando, Florida so there's that! Haha
My brother and I used to have long discussions about that exact point your making. Like the lyrics are a profound, dark, deep, poetic ensemble. It only would make more sense if we were tripping and listening to them 🤣
Dax Riggs of Acid bath is an amazing musician. From what I understand he doesn't like talking about his acid bath years. A lot of the subjects of the songs are pretty twisted.
However, his artwork can be appreciated through his solo career under his own name or in Deadboy and the Elephantman. His clean vocals can be heard and appreciated much better from those two bands.
Damn I love Acid Bath.
Every “section” of this song just Slays. I would agree that Jezebel is their masterpiece.
Nah, tranquilized.
Every song on this record is amazing imo. Probably my favorite album ever.
Kinda surprised there was no comment about the john wayne gacy cover art.
Hmm, I didn't know about John Wayne Gacy's shtick until I just looked it up. I knew he murdered a bunch of people but wasn't aware of the clown thing he had going on.
I made a comment upon it 👌😂 I didn't see this one yet 😂needed to be mentioned 👌
the other other album's art is by Dr Jack Kevorkian
@@pantsedjuniorhayseed4816 and their radio edits is drawn by Richard Ramirez iirc
Great analysis of a majorly influential band that unfortunately alot of people haven't been familiar with. They are a bigger band now than they were in the mid and late 90s. Honestly one of the greatest extreme metal acts ever and for such a short time tragically. Call them what ever you will but genius and ahead of their time for sure. As for the lyrics, they could very well be the thoughts of a madman. Its no question all of the lyrics are darkly themed poetry. And its no epiphany that the band used mind altering substances quite regularly. Sometimes it does feel the lyrics are a word salad to present some sort of disturbing mental picture or to convay something to go with the music. With that being said they are very deep metaphically and dark. Im not sure ive ever been effected by the ramblings of a mad man the way Acid Bath conveys their message. The are poetic, deep, dark, sick and beautiful. A very strange combination that creates some imagery that never leaves the mind just like certain horror movies can leave their mark imprinted in out imaginations.
I agree with your take. Dax's lyrics are always more on the abstract poetic side than telling some kind of story or narrative. It's meant to convey a feeling or emotion and not some logical, cohesive message. And the music complements that aspect well, also. I'm glad to see an opinion I've held myself but haven't heard anyone else convey.
I believe the harsh transitions you speak about are completely intentional. A common theme among Acid Bath tracks is a sense of unease and confusion. Which makes sense when you look into the lyrics of their stuff. A lot of Dax's lyrics revolve around insanity and extreme mental illness. I think they want songs like this one to be a bit disjointed and unpredictable on a first listen to represent those mental struggles.
thank you for making this video, acid bath deserves more attention. they use to play around the NOLA sludge scene in the 90s, but there's alot more to them. all the band members came from different genres, sammy duet was influenced by death metal, mike sanchez was into psychedelic and singer dax riggs liked folk rock. the whole album changes genres from songs, one would have more black metal sound and another would be an acoustic ballad. the sludge sound is there but they are a unique band.
I always felt like this song is an introduction to every style you are about to hear through the album. It’s a perfect blend of what’s to come. Kinda like an overture, but the different pieces are all original music rather than strung together portions of the show’s musical numbers.
i fucking adore acid bath
This song stays nasty. Was one of the first metal albums I truly enjoyed at first, and really paved the way for me to get into Death Metal along with Gorguts. Just so undeniably nasty
Acid Bath and Gorguts are interesting ways to get into heavier music, both great bands
@@jbasti227 Absolutely
The bassist of Acid Bath (RIP Audie Pitre) was at that time trying some pretty rad things out with the super fuzzy bass sound. He had his own side project band Shrum that had two bassist's and was extremely fuzzy bass heavy as you'd imagine, haha. Check them out if you are interested in hearing an extension of that sound he was going for. It's really too bad Audie was killed in a drink driving accident (as was both of his parents. So damn tragic). But he did leave us all some really cool music! I'm a bassist myself so I love that kinda stuff.
didnt expect anyone would react to acid bath, sludge from 90's. But dope
Just looking at the dates, it would seem to be that post-metal might've evolved from sludge metal. The first sludge bands seems to have been early-90s, while post-metal didn't really get started until Neurosis and especially Through Silver in Blood in '96. Probably more likely is that there would've been some cross-influence from two genres contemporaneous to each other sharing certain similar qualities.
Yep, sludge came first, especially if you count proto-sludge like Black Flag's My War. Melvins have also started out in the late 80s. But for the most part, sludge and post-metal evolved in parallel, Neurosis - Souls at Zero in '92 is probably one of the earliest examples. Many post bands borrowed heavily from sludge, and then post really exploded in popularity throughout the 00s. This resulted in a common misconception that sludge is post-metal, but the reality is, classic sludge is just not as well known.
Acid Bath was a whole different thing, they are Doors’ish, and AICish, great band
I use to watch them play every bar I could find them in. Was a before it's time era displacement album. They had more tempo changes then addicts bad habits.
It’s impossible to tie acid bath to any one particular genre. So many elements to their music. God machine has a kinda death metal feel for example. Very unique band.
Not heard this song in a long time, reminds me of being in college, thanks for reacting to The Blue, such a great song!
Legendary, niche band. I just love how it still has its little piece of community scattered around, really shows how much love we still have for these guys and their music!
For me the Tempo Changes is one of the things that makes AB so amazing!
Have you done a song by SLEEP yet?
I suspect Dax was on a hell of a lot of drugs when actually writing this so I imagine the original meaning of the song will never be known
The song references the cycle of life and suicidal ideation
They thank THC in their liner notes, so....
I think that the ants and slugs references are just a comparison of a human life to the greatness of the sky (the blue), earth, or even the universe.
The song somewhat seems to describe the human condition, but just as much seems like it's attacking someone or people who doesn't respect nature, the planet, etc.
@@Cuusardo and also the molecular structure of lsd right after that
It's actually the dying thoughts of a serial killer as the brain closes it self down. The theme is death in dying.
Being from Louisiana, I grew up listening to Acid Bath. I was young and couldn't go to a concert. As others have said, the label is run by someone who just suffocates then from being exposed to people. I always try to promote their music to people by recommendations, but you can't stream their music anywhere just about.
Dax Riggs is a very poetic writer. His lyrics aren't simply interpreted by an everyday listener. A lot of his lyrics are really dark (hence why it's not spread very far) and have a lot of different meanings.
If interested to go further, The Scream of the Butterfly is a song inspired by a phrase of Bob Dylan's - When The Music's Over.
They're on Spotify
Touchtunes jukeboxes have a few Acid Bath songs we can jam in the bars.
When the Kite String Pops - 1994.... Godsmack first release, 1998. Static X first release, 1999. Predating those bands. I will give you that there was a little Alice in there, yeahhhh.
You should definetly be on the right track with the grit. To me, sludge should have some stoner and/or doom connotations, loads of heaviness and grit combined with other styles of your choice (post metal, prog metal etc) But I might be wrong, it's just how I got it from what I've listened to within the genre.
Really good song and very enjoyable analysis.
yeah, the doom connection is really important. But it's also connected to hardcore punk, although maybe less obviously. But the music kinda has the same attitude of "dont give a fuck" and being agressive, many early sludge bands had members previously from hardcore bands or having friends in such bands (so they toured together and influenced eachothers sounds).
Which is why acid bath, eyehategod, soilent green and many other sludge bands have fast parts of their songs. Many other sludge bands just keep it slow throughout. But the more hardcore influenced bands have more energy in them.
ACID BATH.....Geniuses!!!!!!! One of the greatest and original metal bands ever!
Evn now, both ACID BATH albums are still as new and amazing sounding as back then. Nonone sounds like.them, and one of the few bands no one tried to copy. They existed in their own swamp
Miss Audie everyday one of my best childhood friends. Love seeing Thier music still being listen to after all these years.
Audie was definitely a talented guy. Dude had a legendary tone that noone can really touch. I watch the bass covers of Audie and really only the clean sections sound right. Still cool to watch the folks try and see the playing. His bass was a big part of Acid Bath and the real reason I think that it didn't continue. Even if they wanted to, you can't just toss another bassist in there and mimic it and carry on. Even if you could cover Audie, you cannot write for Audie. If it's any consolation. Audie's death lead to me never leaving bars drunk. There was some good to come of it. I was actually drinking a few beers seeing Dax live and had to put my beer down right in front of Dax and bitch at my designated because they got themselves hammered drinking mixed drinks from the bar. So spent the remainder of the show letting three and half beers taper off so I could legally drive out of that show.
@@DR-xr8gv I had got a dwi 6 months before the accident happen. I continued to drink and drive. Untill I attended the funeral. One of the most difficult things ever was to see Audie his mom and Dad. The thing that shook me the most was the ultrasound of little Audie in the casket with Audie. Made me realize that could of been me that destroyed a family. Never drunk and drove again. I barely even drink at all now.
Acid Bath was one of my first exposures to metal when I was young, and it was a high bar since I find most other metal to be bland in comparison, which is saying a lot, I think. Dax and Co.'s other efforts were all great but nothing really topped the first AB album, though Agents of Oblivion comes close (in a different way).
one of my fav old time bands, thanks for reviewing
all doom and sluge is black sabbath insp
Its hard not to smile when you hear an acid bath song... they're so fkn good it jus makes me happy 🤘🏿
When I was a teenager I had a copy of the demo tape of this album. I've loved them ever since. Saw them live twice. (They are amazing!!) Got to hang out with the band a few times. All around fun!
Sludge started out as a mix of Sabbath style doom and Black Flag style hardcore punk. I think Acid Bath and some other bands like Eyehategod and 16 are good representations of this. Post-metal came from sludge.
Ok, I gotta comment to this hopefully it gets seen and clears some stuff up regarding sludge and then the song.
So the song and the whole album is heavily themed around serial killers, suicide, abortion, drug use. Mostly serial killers though and their insane inner workings.
As for sludge it's a hybrid genre of Doom and Hardcore punk older than anything post. Black Flag's My War B Side is a huge influence on the genre and it was itself Black Flag showing their love for Black Sabbath. Saint Vitus and Melvins are other early influences to the genre. Bands like Acid Bath camr along into what we like to call heroin sludge, because of it being a drugged up style that has this certain swampy grit to it.
Sludge has evolved a lot some being a bit doomier, some being very post- sounding, a some influenced by drone and some being heavily influenced by noise genres
I'll make sure Sammy Duet (ex guitarist and growler/screamer back up vocalist), sees this very well thought out review on his Instagram live show(?). I'm sure he'd get a trip outta this! Well done review. I love these highly detailed and deeper reviews of one of my favorite all time bands 🤘🏼🤘🏼🎸🔥🤯😎
Great video! Love this song, it has a deep personal meaning to me; rooted in nostalgia (a woman I used to know). In terms of the drums, Jimmy's use of tom fills gives the song a pagan voodoo twist that I find super cool. Not often mentioned. Also, the lyrics are poetic for sure. I think the reference to the Sun could mean 'In the cold light of day' or 'harsh truth'. The vocal style is harsh as well and helps to drive home the aesthetic. Hope this helps!
‘This song is all over the place but somehow it works.’ That sums up their sound perfectly. If you really dissect the lyrics of this band, the writing is incredible. Most their songs are about serial killers, it seems, but they do it so poetically. Acid bath also has a lot of elements of thrash in their faster songs, and then they have slower songs that make you weep.
Agree! The heavy shit is on point but slower songs like Wither by AOO & Dead Girl & The Bones of Baby Dolls etc. are equally as good.
As someone who has talked to dax, the vocalist, you are way off and reading to deep into the lyrics. It's from his point of view and his way of thinking. Dark comics, horror fiction, serial killers, and alot of psychedelics.... that's basically the idea
This guy being way off is a recurring theme, I'm finding. He was way off and biased in his Burzum reaction as well. Taking everything too literal without understanding the background or where they even come from.
Could have been a good channel but nah
@@keveb4724 I like his take on the musical aspect of videos though
Agreed, it's so weird regarding the lyrics though. First time I heard acid bath the lyrics clicked for me. It's the celebration of opposites. Tripping balls and enjoying the beauty and watching nihilism take over and realizing none of it matters.
Just check out Crowbar. They are the epitome of Sludge.
One. More. Day.
I need to find my Golgotha burn cd and get it on YT. There aren't any high quality copies of it anywhere and all copies I know of were copied and spread by Ty Luent (RIP) from extremely rare tapes. Golgotha was Dax's pre-Acid Bath band. Sammy is still jamming the metal while Dax is jamming softer music and both are awesome.
Dax Riggs is one of the best unknown vocalists ever being able to do screamed and clean vocals well is not easy
His solo and post Acid Bath work is great too even if it’s not really metal
Sucks that he's the only thing preventing an Acid Bath reunion :( But yeah most of Dax's stuff is awesome,
@@burzumiteThey’ve stated there is no acid bath without Audie.
@evanfalgout1707 No new music but were open to a reunion tour. Dax was out.
Acid Bath is my favorite band of all time. One of the few truly awesome things to come from The Boot.
...anybody from Louisiana here that knows what's up...?...
About what?
im so glad I found this album a couple years back
Greatest band, period.
One of my absolute favorite songs from my favorite band ever to play on guitar
This from one of my favorite albums
The vocals done digitally? Do you realize this was released in 1993…..it sounds like the vocals had a Beatles double tracked vocals….im not saying it wasn’t done digitally just that it was done with 1992-93 technology/software….this song and production were way ahead of its time….And I also think that maybe some artists from Seattle may have heard this band and were influenced by them and not the other way around…
Great band, i love it🔥
Acid Bath is the band I’ve seen live more than any other, such a great time for music. Probably the best band I’ve seen live as well, just sounded so great and the vibe and energy was like no other.
To the “Alice in chains” comment…some people actually credit Alice with starting the sludge metal genre unintentionally
no people don't, the 2 pioneers are eyehategod and melvins
Dax is amazing!!
The man was speechless lol welcome to Louisiana Sludge my friend
Me: How the 'byss is there a RUclips version of this for him to react to? No way it could still be up.
Me:
Rotten Records: You are correct.
Sludge Metal = Hardcore + Doom Metal imo
different bands have a different interpretation of that formula
That's basically what it is yeah
I'm from new Orleans and To me it's just hardcore crossover with our slow southern way. It's too hot and humid down here to play fast
@@djbrotherelectric black sabbath was too unfluential on all the sludge guys to leave out doom as an influence.
A big part of acid baths sound was the different musical taste of vocalist Dax and Guitarist Sammy…… Dax went on to do some weird but great blues rock with the other guitarist from acid bath Mike Sanchez called Agents of Oblivion which is amazing 10/10 album (As well as some solo albums which had a white strips vibe) and Sammy went on to play in Crowbar and form Goatwhore. When the band lost their drummer in a car accident they broke up the band right as it was starting to break in the underground.
Great band!
I fell in love w this band in 1998.
Sludge began with the band the Melvins with their Gluey Porch Treatments, but the first real sludge bands were bands like Crowbar, then known as the Slugs, Eyehategod, Soilent Green, and Acid Bath. The influences were doom bands like Black Sabbath and Trouble and Hardcore punk, but ultimately all the bands ended up sounding different and unique no so dissimilar to the first death metal bands. Acid Bath are my favorite Sludge band followed by Crowbar and Tungsten, but Acid Bath are more than sludge really being highly musical.
This dude talking about hearing influces from bands that weren't even formed when this album realesed.....When the kite string popped is from 1994, god smack didn't even form until 1995, static x formed in 1994 so there is no way acid bath was ripping from a band that didn't release their first album until fucking 1999. If anything god smack and static x would be stealing from Acid Bath.
I feel like i see Acid Bath and Melvins referenced as the most influential sludge bands, but both of them, and a lot of other bands thrown into the genre, are really just doing there own thing and are pretty eclectic overall. They just happen to have fuzzy, slower, louder parts in their songs.
And yeah, these lyrics don't mean anything specific. They just paint a picture of a dark, psychedelic state of mind. Gothic acid poetry.
I hope you do Boris by the Melvins, that's the first thing I think of when hearing sludge.
react to scream of the butterfly by acid bath! one of my favorite songs by them
Acid Bath is so great!
Both albums are *chef's kiss* 🤌
Review cassie eats cockroaches, please and thank you!
Yeah, it's sick bro
"The Slit wrist of the sky
Bleeding into the blue"
Describes a Sunrise on the ocean
Louisiana Metal LEGENDS! Check out " Cheap Vodka" and "Dr Suess is dead"
Used to book these guys a lot here in Louisiana (they were formed about an hour from my hometown).
Sludge is uniquely (and almost exclusively) Louisiana's answer to metal, sort of like doom but not really. Best explained by Mike IX from EyehateGod: "it has a lot to do with the humidity and oppressive heat". He's probably not wrong.
Being from Houma I can see this being accurate
Just remember, they did all what you are saying 15 years before you was even born...so really WTF you know.
Trying to explain AB…. That’s funny, right there…. Thank you for the play through 👊 listen to the “Paegan Terrorism Tactics” album, if you haven’t already…..
I don't give a fart about a bar being correct when an overall 'Vibe' is at stake. lol
Acid Bath forever!
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Lmao... this dude is like wtf did I just listened too! Grew up 45 minutes from where they were and listened to them since the beginning! Definitely favorite band ever
Alice meets sabbath with a dark acid driven Jim Morrison.
Sludge is grunge with varying degrees of doom metal and hardcore. There are quite a few post metal bands that use sludge in their music and that could be where the confusion lies.
7:09 When your trying w/ every fiber of your being to hate something but inside your like "that is the baddest shit Ive ever heard" 🤘.
To this day this composer has WTKSTP's & PTT's on constant rotation for sure!
Dimebag used to be backstage at Acid Bath shows often.
Between this and the Eyehategod track I'm getting the sense that sludge is basically hardcore plus doom with some occasional crossover with post-rock, but with strong ties to Black Sabbath as the progenitor of the general sound/style. While I dig the sound/style itself I'm probably more drawn to some of the OG doom bands like Candlemass (who added an "epic" element to the Sabbath blender) or stoner bands like Electric Wizard as I just don't think the hardcore vocals add much except pushing the music closer to punk, which usually isn't my thing in general. Although I only have a sample size of 2 right now, I also prefer EW's and Candlemass's riffs... not that those here or in the Eyehategod track were bad, but both have a bit of a "been there, done that" vibe for me. One part of the riff in this track is also strongly reminiscent of Dream Theater's As I Am. I'd have to dig out some tabs to see if it's the same progression, but it sounds like it, though the DT is held out longer.
Kinda nailed it. I'm from new Orleans and grew up with all these guys and the scene. Definitely hardcore crossover death and with acid bath, psychedelic. I remember listening to acid bath in my youth and my dad was loving it. He felt they were a metal version of the doors
That's kinda exactly what it is Black Fkag's My War B-side is basically the prototype for sludge and it was born out of the band's love of Black Sabbath alongside them being a hardcore band.
Bands like Acid Bath and Eyehategod came along and added copious amounts of drugs to give us the sludge we know today. We had the likes of Melvins and Saint Vitus as well in the 80s that helped to influence the sound immensely
Sludge does have a wide range of styles from band to band. Not sure I could say I hear much Static X in any of it, but bands like Godsmack and others pull heavy influence from sludge and Alice in Chains had elements of it as contemporaries. You should check out Soilent Green next. They're a wild sound as well. Should make for an interesting review. As far as the lyrics for Acid Bath, they're pretty much just psycho psychedelic poetry. Beautiful nightmare images.
It's one story but 4 different song ideas. The intro was the last part written.
Acid Bath and Buzzoven.
This was written in like 91/92, they were NOT influenced by static X or godsmack. alice in chains maybe influenced some of his vocal delivery but i'd guess he was more influenced by Petere Steele, at least for his clean vocals.
Context to when this was written and what was going on in NOLA at the time.
There's a VERY good documentary on this type of metal that came from NOLA.
ruclips.net/video/InjcCSB1D1E/видео.htmlsi=l1pRs6RKMekP_ugG
I enjoy that the "influences" were mostly bands that came after them. (except Alice in Chains)
Yup, that's on me. I've since chosen to use time agnostic language when speaking about musical similarities since I rarely know which bands came before or after others. It was certainly a learning moment for me.
@@CriticalReactions No worries. I'm very obsessive about my southern metal. (worked with Dax and Sammy a bit at the studios I engineered at back when I lived in NOLA). It's incredible how much influence they and a handful of other bands were in shaping 90's and aughts metal. (Exhorder + Soilent Green = Pantera imho). Crowbar's guitar tones and Craig Nunemacher's also had quite an impact and influence. And then as Sammy likes to recount, Slipknot were pretty straightforward death metal but with a lot of drummers, then opened for Acid Bath and went into clean vocals/extreme vocals switching. (Corey is very upfront about their influence and a track on the new record "Acidic" is a tribute of sorts). Sorry to ramble, but appreciate the attention given to this music, so thank you! (Also, if it helps, I've always taken Dax's lyrics as the way Burroughs writes in Naked Lunch - instead of narrative it's just local color of a drug experience).
Also he still writes lyrics like this in a more singer songwriter style
ruclips.net/video/eJw1uTu_xy0/видео.html
this song blue me away lol in 98.. rip audie..
Lol better watch out for *Rotten Records.* 😏
They _love_ pissing off fans.
Guess they're a real rotten bunch